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Add MCP server endpoint for AI agent doc access - #2727

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In keeping competitive with other API Doc services (like Dash), let's add MCP support so agents can interact with our Docs as well.

This adds POST /mcp implementing the Model Context Protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0, non-streaming HTTP) so AI coding agents can query a self-hosted DevDocs instance directly instead of scraping the browser UI.

Three tools, all reading from the same public/docs tree the server already uses to serve doc content:

  • devdocs_list_docsets — the configured doc sets (from settings.docs)
  • devdocs_search — entries in one doc set matching a query (index.json)
  • devdocs_get_page — one entry's content as plain text, HTML stripped with Nokogiri (already a dependency) (db.json)

Relates to #2420.

Adds POST /mcp implementing the Model Context Protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0,
non-streaming HTTP) so AI coding agents can query a self-hosted DevDocs
instance directly instead of scraping the browser UI.

Three tools, all reading from the same public/docs tree the server
already uses to serve doc content:
- devdocs_list_docsets — the configured doc sets (from settings.docs)
- devdocs_search — entries in one doc set matching a query
  (index.json)
- devdocs_get_page — one entry's content as plain text, HTML
  stripped with Nokogiri (already a dependency) (db.json)

Relates to freeCodeCamp#2420.
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joebutler2 marked this pull request as ready for review September 7, 2026 22:34
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